About Egen Games
Built in Lagos for the way Nigerian sport actually runs.
Egen Games sits inside the EgenActive ecosystem, alongside the consumer Active app and the Egen Academy program platform. It exists for organizers and athletes, schools and clubs, parents and coaches. Real events produce real records. Real records compound.
Mission
What we replaced, and what we are building toward.
Before Egen Games, the typical Nigerian school competition ran on three tools. A spreadsheet on the head coach's laptop. A long WhatsApp thread with parents, officials, and judges. A handful of paper score sheets that lasted exactly until the prize ceremony ended.
Results were lost the moment the venue cleared. The next season started from zero. The same athletes appeared on the same podiums, but no one outside that one event ever saw the time, the bracket, or the points. Rankings were a vibe, not a record.
We built Egen Games around the five formats Nigerian sport actually uses. Each is a first-class object on the platform, with its own scoring engine, its own results page, and the same WhatsApp-ready share card on the way out. Every parent will forward a poster of their child placing third. Few will screenshot a spreadsheet cell.
The destination is a national rankings engine that runs on two years of clean inputs. Inputs need a platform organizers actually want to use. That is the work, in order.
What we believe
Four principles that shape every decision.
Not values on a wall. The rules we apply when a feature request arrives or a tradeoff has to be made.
Serve the organizer first.
You set the format, divisions, fees, and venue. We move money, generate share cards, and stay out of the way.
Every result is a story.
A finish time, a podium, a personal best. The share card is the point. If a result will not share well, nothing else matters.
Minors private by default.
Athletes under eighteen are not publicly searchable until a guardian explicitly consents. No dark patterns.
Naira first.
We will not bolt on multi-currency just to look ambitious. Until organizers outside Nigeria ask for it, every figure is Naira.
The ecosystem
One network, three brands.
Egen Games does not stand alone. It is the competitions layer of a larger product family that already serves the same schools, clubs, and athletes.
Egen Academy
The flagship academy platform powering structured swim, dance, music, and athletics programs in Nigerian schools and clubs.
Egen Active
Consumer-facing facility access, activity discovery, and community for individuals and corporate teams across Nigeria.
Egen Games
Competition and events platform for the same network of schools, clubs, and academies. Where structured programs meet structured results.
The team
Operators first, software people second.
Everyone on the team has run an event. Most of us still do. The product reflects that.
Remi Olutimayin
Founder and CEO
Built Elitesgen Academy from one pool in Lekki into a national network. Spends every weekend at an event.
Adaeze Okafor
Head of Product
Designs around the organizer behind a laptop on a folding chair, not the user persona in the deck.
Chijioke Eze
Head of Engineering
Cares deeply about latency on a Glo connection in Surulere at 3pm on a Saturday. So should you.
Funmi Adebayo
Head of Partnerships
Has run more school tournaments than anyone in this room and will tell you which Lagos venue to book.
Bukola Akinwale
Head of Design
Made every share card you have ever seen on a Nigerian sports group chat over the last twelve months.
Roadmap
What is on the table next.
A short list, with rough timing. Detail lives in the press page changelog.
V1, shipping now.
Five formats first-class. Knockouts, round robins, time trials, judged panels, mass participation. Paystack in Naira. Public share cards.
V2, late 2026.
Mobile-first scorer apps. Multi-organizer federations. Sponsor surfaces on event pages. Read-only API for partners.
V3, 2027.
National rankings engine on two years of clean inputs. Verified athlete profiles. Cross-event seeding and seasonal awards.
Run your next event on Egen Games
Brackets, payments, and share cards in one place.
Set up an organizer account in minutes. We answer every message that opens with a real organizer or a real venue.